China Wins World Team Chess Championship 2015

Ten teams with each four top players from all over the world gathered in the Armenian city of Tsakhkadzor from April 18 to 29 2015 to take out the nine-round battle for the popular World Team Championship title.

Russia had the highest average team ELO-rating of 2760 points of all teams in the race.

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Team Ranking with ELO-Ratings

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1 Egypt Rtg-Ø:2548

Bo.

Name

IRtg

FED

1

GM

Amin Bassem

2634

EGY

2

GM

Shoker Samy

2482

EGY

3

IM

Ezat Mohamed

2479

EGY

4

GM

Adly Ahmed

2595

EGY

IM

Farahat Ali

2389

EGY

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2 Israel Rtg-Ø:2676

Bo.

Name

IRtg

FED

1

GM

Gelfand Boris

2747

ISR

2

GM

Sutovsky Emil

2628

ISR

3

GM

Smirin Ilia

2652

ISR

4

GM

Rodshtein Maxim

2667

ISR

GM

Postny Evgeny

2636

ISR

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3 Ukraine Rtg-Ø:2719

Bo.

Name

IRtg

FED

1

GM

Ponomariov Ruslan

2713

UKR

2

GM

Ivanchuk Vassily

2731

UKR

3

GM

Eljanov Pavel

2733

UKR

4

GM

Kryvoruchko Yuriy

2686

UKR

GM

Moiseenko Alexander

2697

UKR

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4 Cuba Rtg-Ø:2665

Bo.

Name

IRtg

FED

1

GM

Dominguez Perez Leinier

2729

CUB

2

GM

Bruzon Batista Lazaro

2691

CUB

3

GM

Quesada Perez Yuniesky

2629

CUB

4

GM

Ortiz Suarez Isan Reynaldo

2612

CUB

GM

Gonzalez Vidal Yuri

2557

CUB

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5 China Rtg-Ø:2715

Bo.

Name

IRtg

FED

1

GM

Ding Liren

2751

CHN

2

GM

Yu Yangyi

2724

CHN

3

GM

Bu Xiangzhi

2681

CHN

4

GM

Wei Yi

2703

CHN

IM

Wang Chen

2531

CHN

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6 USA Rtg-Ø:2647

Bo.

Name

IRtg

FED

1

GM

Shankland Samuel L

2661

USA

2

GM

Lenderman Aleksandr

2617

USA

3

GM

Onischuk Alexander

2665

USA

4

GM

Akobian Varuzhan

2622

USA

GM

Naroditsky Daniel

2640

USA

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7 Hungary Rtg-Ø:2693

Bo.

Name

IRtg

FED

1

GM

Leko Peter

2713

HUN

2

GM

Erdos Viktor

2612

HUN

3

GM

Almasi Zoltan

2698

HUN

4

GM

Rapport Richard

2710

HUN

GM

Balogh Csaba

2651

HUN

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8 Russia Rtg-Ø:2760

Bo.

Name

IRtg

FED

1

GM

Grischuk Alexander

2794

RUS

2

GM

Karjakin Sergey

2757

RUS

3

GM

Tomashevsky Evgeny

2745

RUS

4

GM

Jakovenko Dmitry

2744

RUS

GM

Vitiugov Nikita

2736

RUS

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9 Armenia Rtg-Ø:2691

Bo.

Name

IRtg

FED

1

GM

Aronian Levon

2770

ARM

2

GM

Sargissian Gabriel

2674

ARM

3

GM

Movsesian Sergei

2665

ARM

4

GM

Akopian Vladimir

2656

ARM

GM

Melkumyan Hrant

2651

ARM

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10 India Rtg-Ø:2662

Bo.

Name

IRtg

FED

1

GM

Harikrishna P.

2731

IND

2

GM

Sethuraman S.P.

2634

IND

3

GM

Sasikiran Krishnan

2654

IND

4

GM

Vidit Santosh Gujrathi

2630

IND

GM

Sengupta Deep

2576

IND

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Team Results Rounds 1 to 9

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Round 1 on 2015/04/19 at 15.00

India started off strong in Round 1 and scored the highest team result of 3 points and many victories at the expense of Egypt’s rating.

No.

SNo.

Team

Res.

Team

SNo.

1

1

Egypt

1 – 3

India

10

2

2

Israel

2½ – 1½

Armenia

9

3

3

Ukraine

2½ – 1½

Russia

8

4

4

Cuba

2 – 2

Hungary

7

5

5

China

2½ – 1½

USA

6

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Round 2 on 2015/04/20 at 15.00

An all draw round helps India to maintain the lead. Israel, Cuba, and China, however, were only one match point short and close up after Round 2. Favorite team Russia was in bottom rank.

No.

SNo.

Team

Res.

Team

SNo.

1

10

India

2 – 2

USA

6

2

7

Hungary

2 – 2

China

5

3

8

Russia

1½ – 2½

Cuba

4

4

9

Armenia

2½ – 1½

Ukraine

3

5

1

Egypt

2 – 2

Israel

2

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Round 3 on 2015/04/21 at 15.00

Israel took over the lead on the third game day. Three defeats and one draw caused India’s team to fall far behind. Israel and Cuba, on the other hand, rapidly enhanced to the very top with each five match points. The Ukrainian team was the only team of the tournament to achieve an unbelievable four victories in one round.

No.

SNo.

Team

Res.

Team

SNo.

1

2

Israel

3½ – ½

India

10

2

3

Ukraine

4 – 0

Egypt

1

3

4

Cuba

2½ – 1½

Armenia

9

4

5

China

2 – 2

Russia

8

5

6

USA

1½ – 2½

Hungary

7

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Round 4 on 2015/04/22 at 15.00

Armenia scored the most unfavorable results of the fourth game day; they only scored one point through Levon Aroanian’s and Liren Ding’s draws. Cuba took over the overall lead with 7 match points and Ukraine advanced from rank 6 to 2 which it shared with China.

No.

SNo.

Team

Res.

Team

SNo.

1

10

India

2½ – 1½

Hungary

7

2

8

Russia

2 – 2

USA

6

3

9

Armenia

½ – 3½

China

5

4

1

Egypt

1 – 3

Cuba

4

5

2

Israel

1½ – 2½

Ukraine

3

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Round 5 on 2015/04/23 at 15.00

Cuba and Ukraine switched positions in the rankings. Israel caught up with the top, so that Cuba had to comply not only with falling behind on rank 2 but also having to share it with Israel. China and Ukraine soundly remained at the rankings’ top. The greatest game point addition of the day was scored by Russia with victories of Karjakin, Tomashevsky, and Vitiugov. Only Grischuk couldn’t prevail, only tied against Peter Leko.

No.

SNo.

Team

Res.

Team

SNo.

1

3

Ukraine

2½ – 1½

India

10

2

4

Cuba

1½ – 2½

Israel

2

3

5

China

2½ – 1½

Egypt

1

4

6

USA

1½ – 2½

Armenia

9

5

7

Hungary

½ – 3½

Russia

8

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Round 6 on 2015/04/25 at 15.00

Ukraine and China kept the lead and enhanced their advantage to Israel and Cuba on rank 2 by 3 match points. The bottom end of the rankings did not change at all – Egypt was stuck with only 1 match point in 6 rounds.

No.

SNo.

Team

Res.

Team

SNo.

1

10

India

1½ – 2½

Russia

8

2

9

Armenia

2 – 2

Hungary

7

3

1

Egypt

1 – 3

USA

6

4

2

Israel

1½ – 2½

China

5

5

3

Ukraine

2½ – 1½

Cuba

4

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Round 7 on 2015/04/26 at 15.00

After round 7 had been played, everything pointed to Ukraine or China winning the tournament. None of the other teams were a serious threat to the teams with 11 match points each. India as well as Israel, Armenia, Cuba, and Hungary had only 7 points each. At least the battle for the silver medal remained suspenseful.

No.

SNo.

Team

Res.

Team

SNo.

1

4

Cuba

1½ – 2½

India

10

2

5

China

2 – 2

Ukraine

3

3

6

USA

2½ – 1½

Israel

2

4

7

Hungary

2½ – 1½

Egypt

1

5

8

Russia

1½ – 2½

Armenia

9

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Round 8 on 2015/04/27 at 15.00

China scored a remarkable result against Cuba, while the United States interrupted Ukraine’s sequence of successful rounds. Therefore, China went ahead with two whole point’s advantage to the Ukraine. Russia scored 3 points against the hopelessly inferior team of Egypt and managed to enhance to where a match for a medal seemed realistic. Armenia remained in 3rd rank, but had to fear the approaching teams of Israel, Russia, Hungary, and the United States (all one point short).

No.

SNo.

Team

Res.

Team

SNo.

1

10

India

1½ – 2½

Armenia

9

2

1

Egypt

½ – 3½

Russia

8

3

2

Israel

2 – 2

Hungary

7

4

3

Ukraine

1½ – 2½

USA

6

5

4

Cuba

1 – 3

China

5

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Round 9 on 2015/04/28 at 11.00

The victories of Yi Wie and Yangi Yu and the overall score of 3-0 against India were China’s overall tournament victory. Ukraine tied against Hungary which was enough to secure 2nd place. Armenia played against Egypt, their victory and bronze medal thus little surprising.

No.

SNo.

Team

Res.

Team

SNo.

1

5

China

3 – 1

India

10

2

6

USA

3 – 1

Cuba

4

3

7

Hungary

2 – 2

Ukraine

3

4

8

Russia

2½ – 1½

Israel

2

5

9

Armenia

2½ – 1½

Egypt

1

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Final Results

Rank

Team

Gam.

+

=

–

Matchpoint

Gamepoints.

1

China

9

6

3

0

15

23

2

Ukraine

9

5

2

2

12

21

3

Armenia

9

5

1

3

11

18

4

Russia

9

4

2

3

10

20½

5

USA

9

4

2

3

10

19½

6

Hungary

9

2

5

2

9

17

7

Israel

9

3

2

4

8

18½

8

Cuba

9

3

1

5

7

16½

9

India

9

3

1

5

7

16

10

Egypt

9

0

1

8

1

10

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